Ultimate Koenigsegg Factory Tour With Christian Von Koenigsegg 

So underrated

I could do this all day.

No doubt about it

I was hoping the video never ended it's insane

Same. Picking his Brain will be fun

He’s a really great guy with a brilliant team

He's the real BFG like the engine from the Gemera

So glad he made the Gemera a car and not succumb to the industry pressure of making an SUV. Love it!

Well said. The aliens definitely gave us someone special. 🖖🏽

Yeah, you can that this video could be 8hrs long and still have more! ❤🤯

combustion engine car is dead

@Jesus has given you all. Repent or die. Such a random video to comment this on.

@@MrJarenko0097 With a good enough catalytic converter like the ones MIT are working on that can capture all CO2 emissions they are far from dead my friend. It is a shame that Koenigsegg is not working on a super efficient standard road car. Imagine a carbon fibre monocoque four seater that has a top speed of 80miles an hour and gets 100 miles per gallon? Electric cars still have the issue of extremely heavy and environmentally harmful batteries. The production capabilities and techniques are already so efficient for combustion engines that they can produce them way more efficient than any electric car. Perhaps you were talking about hydrogen powered cars? They are still combustion powered I guess...

@@plantatheist5883 thank goodness for that. Plus don’t forget about synthetic fuels 👍🔥

I don't believe anyone loves what they do more...

yeah asculpture you can drive,who woyuld have thought

Elon with tesla(someone Christian admits to admiring, rj scaringe with rivian, Peter Rawlins with lucid, mate rimac who runs rimac automobile all might know as much about their companies vehicle's. 🤔

What happens when the designer is still the owner.

@@4literv6 john hennessey and former dodge exec knew their stuff too. And of course enzo ferrari

It's nice when you don't have 10 cars that are constantly changing.

@@sirena7116 agreed. That's what I like about the super-marques like EB, Kngsg, Deusenberg, (first era) Cadillac, etc. They focus on beautiful cars that stay until their time is up. Case in point, the huayra from pagani is a decade old, and yet it looks like it has yet to start production.

Well said!

That's why Christian is the best,he know all his car and his product that they produce like the back of his hand, pretty impressive consider not alot of top leader know almost everything about their company

Well no, those transmissions are used in tractors for the last 40 years, they just refined it. Anyway very cool design

It's almost like he IS Koenigsegg... oh wait :D

In his office above the weird model he presented was another scale model of a Tucker 45 model that was a very revolutionary car, with plenty features way ahead for it's time build by Preston Tucker.. So i think Mr. Cristian got inspired and decided to honor few early significant pioneers that contribute to auto industry in early days..

Horacio P too

Gordon Murray?

Mate Rimac?

alam ko

Yes.. what a saab that should be!

saab are saab story not worth it they suck

@@startingtech3900 ofcourse not, it was great cars.

a small company with military and F1 tech isnt small if you think about it. There is a lot happening behind the ''scenes''.

They plan on using AI to maximize the parameters of free valve...for all fuels. As you probably know, but for the sake of other readers: this valve train doesn't require a conventional throttle and can switch from 2 stroke aspiration...to four stroke miller cycle within milliseconds. With AI pushing boundaries, we may discover fueling and timing parameters that would have taken years of research, solved in very little time.

I'd LOVE to have access to their knowledgebase and engineering might to create cars that may not be 5-figure but low 6-figure and still bring similar excellence to cars people would drive to work and across Europe. Imagine these guys getting serious about a car to bitch slap a stationwagon such an E62, Panamera Turbo S, etc. Decent composite frame, Gemera like drivetrain with perhaps 2 inline torque converters, or one TV plus a 3spd gearbox that helps the electric drivetrain run cool. If the base level is €200-300K rather than all optioned out, a lot can be done and plenty would be sold. Even a "bland" all-electric Koenigsegg super-Volvo V90 would absolutely be bought in numbers.

@@Cloxxki it ain't that easy bruh

Cool to hear from somebody who knows that stuff from real

@@william_SMMA Nothing is actually easy. But these people have skills. If other brands had it, they'd show it off.

​@@Cloxxki I'm talking about where you mentioned bringing Koenigsegg tech to mundane vehicles to be sold en masse lol you think a 3 cylinder engine producing 600hp is cheap, what about freevalve? Direct Drive The only way to beat the established brands is to make it cheaper than the competition or make it amazing value for the money and koenigsegg simply has no tech that is immediately valued by people looking for a station wagon or cheap sedan lol there's cars for $40k that have 500hp and tons of fun behind the gas pedal Koenigsegg as a company is just a tad bit profitable, their ground breaking tech actually costs that much

Probably the most creatively free environment in vehicle manufacturing.

100%

Yep, at least for other than electrical parts that applies.

@@wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20 That's not necessarily true. I'm 99% sure Koenigsegg has its own electrical engineers, and in-house circuit card printing and soldering equipment. It's not all that expensive, either. You just need to be able to source silicon.

It is a shame they only work on super cars for the mega rich. Imagine a standard road car developed by Koenigsegg... How many miles per gallon would you get from a production line car fitted with a carbon fibre monocoque to reduce weight? Add an infinitely more efficient engine, aerodynamic profile, breaking and suspension...

A swedish national treasure

*International treasure

Wow, thanks!

Agreed. That first pull with the door open tho 😍😍

Owning a place and not walking around like you own a place is very telling about one's character. Edit: He seems to have respect for the people he employs. They do not seem to be his subordinates, but equal parts on the same mission.

@@im3phirebird81 Good point, especially tha latter part. Think that is very intentional and a key component of their ability to transform crazy and innovative ideas to production like this. He talks about his team like they're a hive mind of people sharing the same passion. Maybe that's part of the success?

It's Sweden after all, not the vulgar place that is the US. It is what you'd expect.

@@im3phirebird81 he seems to be working with them a lot more than them working for him

Also respect and role model for safety. The Dyno area is hazardous. Good practice to check before entering.

And most of not secretive about it, awesome

Yeah I just wish I had money to throw at him. I bet every set of keys comes with his personal phone number 😆

@@StanleyKubick1 wouldn’t surprise me!!

He's such an engineering nerd and I love it.

Thanks for watching 😃👍🏻

I'm mind boggled that no matter what part of the factory he went to or what part he pointed at he could name it proper and explain exactly what it does!

Q would be jealous 😂

Imagine your neighbor spent millions on a Pagani and you arrive home in a Jesko or Gemera. The level of technology just doesn't compare. Ferrari flagships are agricultural in comparison in oh so many ways. It seems Christian has embrace the idea of scaling up, having seen his recent intern Mate Rimac do well for himself and recently having been convinced to take custodianship of Bugatti ;-)

@@Cloxxki Koenigsegg is my favorite car manufacturer on the planet but I'd hardly feel like I had a "lesser" car if I owned a Pagani and my neighbor had an Egg. Just because Pagani doesn't go to such extreme lengths when it comes to tech and performance doesn't mean their cars are worse or not worth as much. It's just two different philosophies.

Literally sounds like a guy you could talk to in a shop or passing on a sidewalk

The question should be why it's not twice the price of a relatively mass produced Bugatti. All Koenigsegg owners with +1 can fit in a cozy theater. For the Bugatti owners lcub, you'd need a large concert hall.

I bet some engineers got divorced to go work there.

@@Cloxxki i hope they brought their wives and kids with them, sweden seems like a nice place to live

@@G..S if you have money

Yeah he doewnt do it for free, his cars are the most expensive and not to mention unoptainable largely, also try and get an insurance for a car woth 3 mil euros. Also the service is crap, since you need to take the car and send it to sweden in order to get it repaired

@@InFlamesor12 wah wah fuckin wah.

@@InFlamesor12 Oh. So you own/owned one? I am pretty sure there are service and repair in different parts of the world. The only time i could think of that you would need to send it back to the factory is if there is damage done to the chassis. Or perhaps if you need to rebuild the engine.

If at least for the patented tech he makes.

F1 bans any preselection of gears, so there has to be an actual shift between one gear to another. Given that limitation, an F1 seamless transmission is still another masterpiece of engineering.

@@456MrPeople The individual clutches act as the gear selectors and you can shift between any gears so there is no pre-selection to next gear. I think these transmissions would be legal in F1 but if not there are other motorsport categories.

@@gh0str1d3r00 F1 needs only sequentials. It's why Cosworth came up with the IGS. The first to actually do an IGS was Honda. The IGS is witchcraft, it has no delay between the gears and torque is continuous, but it is still sequential. It cannot jump from any gear to any gear.

Thanks buddy 😎🏁

Thanks a lot : )

Genuinely I had free reign it was as natural as it was 😅

@@MrJWW thats so awesome. Not many automaker's or CEO's would risk an interview that isn't skewed in their favor. You did an amazing job dude. The whole interview just felt like 2 buddies havin a chat

Bc he knows you gotta be excellent at your job to even have a hope of making the parts properly

Hah look at this guy. Acting like he understands it all based on superficial explanations.

@@Stierenkloot Everyone doesn't have this inability comprehending things that do not strictly adhere to ISO standards.

It’s a pleasure, thanks for watching and more to come!

@@MrJWW i can't wait...mmmm

A teacher once told me: “you are not an great engineer in you know all the jargon, you are when you can explain it to a little kid what you are doeing. He is the perfect example of that

Thanks buddy it’s a real honour to share it